SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) engines are an essential part of the processors in various computing markets, from servers to the embedded domain. Although SIMD-enabled a...
Amir Hormati, Yoonseo Choi, Mark Woh, Manjunath Ku...
Power density continues to increase exponentially with each new technology generation, posing a major challenge for thermal management in modern processors. Much past work has exa...
Although CMOS feature size scaling has been the source of dramatic performance gains, it has lead to mounting reliability concerns due to increasing power densities and on-chip te...
Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Amin Ansari, Jason ...
Increasing the number of cores in a multi-core processor reduces per-core performance. On the other hand, providing more resources to each core limits the number of cores on a chi...
Hardware counters are a fundamental building block of modern high-performance processors. This paper explores two applications of probabilistic counter updates, in which the outpu...